The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home is a closely observed account of the author’s actual 5-week, 500-mile walk from Chicago to Minneapolis and parallel journey through the memories of his traumatic and painful life as a young man. His meetings with people and places along the journey open up the history, culture, and experience of this part of the Midwest in a way that will captivate any interested reader.

Tim Herwig is a writer, performer, teacher, and student of literature and the humanities. As a performing artist, he was interested in how a poet or writer transforms an image into metaphor. He imagined a physical space or moment of time between the formation of a metaphor and when a writer or poet writes it on a piece of paper or taps it out on a keyboard. He also worked for many years in the social/economic justice field of community development, for a bank and a federal regulatory agency.